A few weeks ago, I read a blog post about a way to reduce clicks/touches when selecting items from expandable menus:
The most common behavior is touching an icon to open some menu, and touch again on ...

I've been contemplating the idea of increasing UX for mobile touch screen phone users by programming a keyboard to avoid typos when touches fall in-between keys by guessing the key that the user most ...

I need to build a search screen on a mobile phone, which has three options such as search by building, search by a department or search by a location. As soon as the user choses one of these options, ...

Most of the mobile devices that are based on Android OS have buttons on the bottom edge of the device.
These touch buttons have terrible UX issues. They are prone to accidental touch, thus resulting ...

I'm designing a product detail page for tablet (mainly iPad). Given the limitation of screen size (although the new iPad is bigger now), there are content that's cutoff at the bottom. The requirement ...

So, I designed/suggested some gesture for some actions for my college project. The design I made is based on common touch gesture (by common, I mean gesture usual gesture like 'tap with one finger' to ...

I understand this question has been discussed a couple of times on the site. However, it seems not to be getting the answer or inspiration I am looking for. BTW, my background is a programmer in case ...

I'm currently developing a UI for a tablet application (portrait view)
The client asked us to split the application into two panes, where the left side is a preview pane, and the right side gives the ...

Say I have a list of courses on a mobile device (black square), and a user makes a touch interaction on said course (red circle), which of the following locations would their eye most likely go?
I'm ...

I have a tappable row (yellow with blue border in pic) which does action A.
However inside this I could have input controls (checkbox, textbox, etc). I have wrapped this area in a non clickable view ...

I find it extremely frustrating. Majority (about 90%) of all the smartphone users are right-handed. It seems to me that right-handed people would prefer to handle the phone with their right hand. I ...

We know that users in bi-directional (bi-di) locales (speakers of Arabic and Hebrew) for example read/write text from right-to-left (RTL) and read/write numbers from left-to-right. hence we have bi-di ...

I have a situation where I don't really know if there is a possibility that the user experience can get sloppy. Its specifically for an iPhone app if it matters.
Basically, I have two views, a list ...

On a touch device (tablet or smartphone for example), is it valid to say that the buttons must be round, because the end of my finger is round? More specifically, will the user understand more easily ...

I was wondering if there were any A/B tests carried out for where scroll indicator buttons should be placed. See for example Acquia.com, they have up and down scroll buttons placed, which is good for ...

Many native apps these days are meant to be used with a horizontal swipe across the entire screen. At my company now, the idea of having our web apps styled in this manner are being thrown around a ...

I really like pull-to-refresh as a way to force an update of a reverse-chronological list. However I've noticed a somewhat awkward pattern in my own use of pull-to-refresh, and I assume I'm not the ...

I need to design a simple wizard or a navigation solution that will enable users to select a number of parameters for a task or drill they want to activate on a interactive touch screen kiosk.
So lets ...

I'm researching touch screen design for a presentation to our UX team, and I originally wanted to focus it around tablets and mobile devices. But as I work, I'm realizing I definitely want to include ...

I'm writing some documentation for a web-based application that will run on Android tablets at the factory at which I am employed.
I am having trouble wording the steps where the users must interact ...

Allowing a clear button to appear when the user begins typing characters in regular input is very welcome for the touchscreen enable app I'm building. The challenge is to "reset[ear](The clear button ...

It seems to me that devices (such as navigation systems) that use a stylus for touchscreen interaction have become out of of favor. Instead most new devices are intended (i. e. larger buttons etc.) to ...

What is the recommended way to share information pertinent to describing a button on a touch-based mobile browser layout?
For desktop browsers the way to solve this is to use popovers that display a ...

Are there any guidelines as to when it's useful to have a touchscreen interface? My first experience was with my smartphone and I thought the touchscreen was great and a huge improvement on usability. ...

When you have a long lists of items and you want to let the user interact with one of the items contextually - a common solution is to use the hover-tools pattern in a desktop browser environment. The ...